But when Rebecca heard about Esau's plan, she sent for Jacob and said, “Listen, your brother Esau is planning to get even with you and kill you.
those who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil,
They encourage each other in their evil plots; they talk about where they will place their traps. “No one can see them,” they say.
Even David's two wives, Ahinoam and Abigail, had been taken away.
Esau hated Jacob, because his father had given Jacob the blessing. He thought, “The time to mourn my father's death is near; then I will kill Jacob.”
Now, son, do what I say. Go at once to my brother Laban in Haran,
Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the country of Edom.
Save me, I pray, from my brother Esau. I am afraid—afraid that he is coming to attack us and destroy us all, even the women and children.